As our holiday lists begin to take shape and we look for “just the right book” to give or enjoy during the quieter winter ...

December's "Cold Moon" rose on Dec. 4 as it neared its closest point ot Earth in its monthly orbit.

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages on ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

A key figure in this controlled chaos was the Saturnalicius Princeps, or “Leader of Saturnalia.” This mock king was chosen by ...

In the low-grade lens of the TV cameras, between 1969 and 1972, the men who walked the moon were transmogrified into low-gravity Cold ...